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Climate change could lead to seas rising 20 feet
CBS News ^ | July 10, 2015 | By MICHAEL CASEY

Posted on 07/10/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Rising sea levels have been mostly measured in inches in the past decades, but scientists said they could increase more than 20 feet in the future as global warming continues to melt ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.

The dire projections are based on a look back at the climate record, with scientists finding that increases of 20 feet have happened at least twice over the past 3 million years when temperatures were very similar to what they are today.

Peter Clark, an Oregon State paleoclimatologist and another co-author of the study, said that because current carbon dioxide levels are as high as they were 3 million years ago, "we are already committed to a certain amount of sea level rise."

"The ominous aspect to this is that CO2 levels are continuing to rise, so we are entering uncharted territory," Clark said. "What is not as certain is the time frame, which is less well-constrained. We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets."

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1 posted on 07/10/2015 10:43:09 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s a lot of water!


2 posted on 07/10/2015 10:44:49 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Couples? Same-sex COUPLES?! Don't be such a narrow-minded hate-filled clusterphobe.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

ABC in the mid-2000’s said New York would be under water by June 2015.

CBS was jealous and wanted in on this.


3 posted on 07/10/2015 10:45:08 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets”

GASP!


4 posted on 07/10/2015 10:45:22 AM PDT by Augustinian monk ("Beware the Ides of March!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I filled a couple of 55 gallon drums of water for my rain barrel project..... so I am helping a little.


5 posted on 07/10/2015 10:45:36 AM PDT by Klemper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Save that headline for 3535 when they can extrapolate the 1 foot rise to project when the remaining 19 feet will be realized.


6 posted on 07/10/2015 10:46:16 AM PDT by G Larry (Obama Hates America, Israel, Capitalism, Freedom, and Christianity.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How? Polar ice caps melting? The earth has a finite amount of water. It is either gas, liquid, or solid. The earth is like a container; you fill it with ice and add enough water to float the ice to the brim. What happens when the ice melts?


7 posted on 07/10/2015 10:46:33 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( "Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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8 posted on 07/10/2015 10:46:38 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why hasn’t it happened already, where it was predicted the sea would rise that much by 2000, or 2010? Or 2012? Guess they are just like the doomsday preachers on the street. Making up new trash every day.


9 posted on 07/10/2015 10:47:12 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I thought I read just yesterday Antarctica ice is at record highs.


10 posted on 07/10/2015 10:47:36 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Or 50, or 100, or 500. Just pick a number. It’s just as reliable.


11 posted on 07/10/2015 10:47:42 AM PDT by ilgipper
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To: SkyDancer

Ice in water, sure, but ice on land will melt and run into somewhere else. Still, however, the rise will not be allthat substantial considering how much water is currently in the ocean compared to inland and mountain glaciers.


12 posted on 07/10/2015 10:49:22 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

As Dennis Miller would say: “If my yawn got any bigger they’d have to assign it a hurricane name.”


13 posted on 07/10/2015 10:49:53 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

In what? Another 20 million years? So what?


14 posted on 07/10/2015 10:50:32 AM PDT by Bobby_Taxpayer
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To: Augustinian monk
“We could be talking many centuries to a few millennia to see the full impact of melting ice sheets” GASP!

It's for the children!!

15 posted on 07/10/2015 10:50:44 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (Resistance to Tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Proven wrong every time as their chicken-little predictions fail to ever materialize, the warmies become ever more shrill.

These people are truly amazing.


16 posted on 07/10/2015 10:51:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.ct)
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To: SkyDancer

STOP IT! You’re injecting facts and science when mere emotion is called for.

You should be banished to a museum or something.


17 posted on 07/10/2015 10:51:35 AM PDT by cyclotic ( Check out traillifeusa.com. America's premier boys outdoor organization)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Another flood. We are all going to die. What a crock of BS.


18 posted on 07/10/2015 10:51:59 AM PDT by mulligan (I)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So therefore I need to give more taxes to my government to avoid this potential catastrophe?


19 posted on 07/10/2015 10:52:41 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("Keeping your stick down used to be a commandment, but not anymore" Harry Sinden, 1988)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If California would build the appropriate number of freshwater reservoirs that they need the oceans would recede and the problem would be solved.


20 posted on 07/10/2015 10:52:41 AM PDT by KC Burke (Ceterum censeo Islam esse delendam)
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